Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-29

n tno curoatOno tor hilns anu pan1 on- ~
wonders who that well dressed man was that
helped him. You did a kindness to the boy,
but you did great joy 10 your own soul
You win not get over II all the week.
On the street tomorrow morning you wiz
see sick man passing along. "Ah,n you say
"What can l do to make this man happyf he
does not want money he Is not poor;
but he Is sick" Give him one Of those tw nty-
five hundred cheerful looks that You have gar
nered up for the whole year. Look Joy and
no, sfulness into his soul. IL viii thrill him
through, and there will be reaction upon
your own soul Going little farther on you
will come to the store OF friend who Is en-
barrassed in business matters. You will 60 In
and say: What fine store you havel
think business will brighten up, and you will
have more custom after while. thin
there is coming q great prosperity to all the
country. Good morning You pass out You
have helped that young man, and you have
helped yourself. And that night you go
home; you sit by the fire, you talk a little.
you sing little, you laugh little; you says
"IreaIly don't know what Is the matter with
me. / never felt so splendid in my ffe."
/ will tell what is the matter with you.
You spent only two cents out Of the $40; you
have contributed one out Of twenty-five hun
dred cheerful looks; you have give ten, fif-
teen or twenty Of the five thousand pleasant
year; you have with your own hands helped
the boy with the wheelbarrow, and you feel
in body, mind and soul the thrill Of that
recreation. Which do you think was the
happier-Col. Gardiner, who sat with his
elbow on a table spread with all extravagant
viands, looking of at q dog on the
rug. saving: "How I would Ike to
change places with him; 1 be the dog
and he be Colonel Gardiner;" or those two
Moravian missionaries who wanted to 60
into the lazaretto for the sake OF attend
ing the sick, and they were told: ''If you go
in there, you will never come out. We never
allow any one to come out, for he would
bring the contagion" Then they made their
wills and went in, first to.help the sick and
then to die. Which was the happier, Colonel
Gardiner or the Moravian missionaries dying
for others Was it all sacrifice when the
missionaries wanted to bring the Gospel to
the negroes at the Barbados, and. being
denied the privileges, sold themselves into
slavery, standing side by side and lying
side by side down in the very ditch OF
suffering in order that they might bring
those men up to life and God and heaven,
Oh, there is thrill in the joy of doing good
1t 10 the most magnificent recreation to
which a man ever puts his hand or his head
or his heart.
But. before closing, l want to impress upon
you that mere secular entertainments are not
a fit foundation for your soul to build on.
was reading OF q woman who had gone
all the rounds of sinful amusement, and she
came to die She said: II will die tonight
at O'clock "Oh," they said, II guess
not, You don't seem to be sick" 81 shall die
at o'clock, and my soul will be lost
know it will be lost i have sinned away
my day of grace" The noon came They
desired to seek religious counsel
AAI1 ~ H. 60 oF fxy dov ie
gone i have been all the rounds OF worldly
pleasure, and it is too late. / shall die te
night at 8 O'clock The day wore away, and
it came to o'clock, and to 5 o'clock, aud she
or ed out at o'clock: DESTROYED spirits, "
snail not have me yet it is nos d, it is moi
| 81" The moments went by, and the shadow:
began to gather, and the clock struck q: nlic
while it was striking her soul went. What
hour God will call for lis do not know :
whether q o'clock tonight or B O'clock thu
afternoon. or at l o'clock, OF at this mo
ment Sitting where you are, falling for
ward, or standing where you are, dropping
down, where would YOU SO to'
But our hour for adjourning has already
come, and the last hour OF our life will soor
| be here, and from that hour we will review
this days proceedings. 1t will ba a soIenlr
| h,mr. If from our desth pillow we have t.
look back and see a life spent III sinful amuse
nent, there will be dart that VIII stl1k
throug Oh our soul sharper than the dag"e
with which Virginius slew his chihi Th
memory of the past will make us quake ik
Macbeth The iniquities and rioting through
which we have passed viii come upon us
weird and skeleton as Meg MerriIles. leith
the old Shylock, will demand and take the re
manning pound of flesh and the remaining
drop of blood. and upon our last oppor;unit
for repentance, and our last Oh nce TO
heaven, the curtain will forever dro.'